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NAME SNOW 1081 SNOW tional beauty and talent and a member of a distinguished Creole family. Tlie union was blessed with one daughter, Arthemise, now the wife of the Reverend David Hays whose manse adjoins the old Smyth homestead at Ardcarae, Ireland. As "Babette," the heroine of the child novel by Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart, Arthemise took her place early in life in the literature of her native land. Of extreme modesty, Dr. Smyth was ever reticent upon the subject of his accomplish- ments and was prone to underestimate his ♦ achievements. On one occasion when called to the witness stand to give testimony in a case of serious injury which under his suc- cessful surgical intervention recovered, he stated in answer to the question "Your oper- ation saved the patient's life?" "While I was attending the patient, he recovered." He was a man of few words, but of "infinite jest" and to his familiars a delightful racon- teur. Possessing neither "the pen of a ready writer" nor the fluent speech of the rostrum, he rarely employed such media to demonstrate his ability and attainments, but his worth as a citizen, his integrity as a man, his sym- pathy as a physician and his skill as a sur- geon, have made the medical profession of New Orleans proud to number him among its ranks. When in 1894 he determined to give up active service and retired with his family to Ardcame the Times Democrat of September 19 expressed the regret of the community in a most eulogistic valediction. On September 4, 1916, Dr. Smyth fell a victim to the grippe and was laid to rest in the family burj'ing ground near his place of birth. Jane Grey Rogers. Appleton's Cyclopedia Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1888. Times-Democrat, New Orleans, Sept. 14, 1894. Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Sept. 5, 1916. Snow, Albion Parris (1826-1898) This man, one who was always ready to advance the profession as a whole, was born in Brunswick, Maine, March 14, 1826, and one of triplets, the son of poor parents, and like the children of many other such was all the more eager for knowledge and im- provement. It is said of the Snow family that the wife brought into the world four male chil- dren inside of one year, one being born on the tvv'enty-fifth of December, 1833, and trip- lets, December 2, 1834. By his perseverance and determination, young Albion studied medicine with Dr. Edmund Randolph Peas- lee (q. v.), then at the Medical School of Maine, and at the Dartmouth Medical Col- lege, finally graduating from the Medical School of Maine in 18S4. During this time he was well thought of as an anatomist, and was made demonstrator in both of his schools in succession. He married Matilda Sewall, of Winthrop, and settled in that town, directly after graduating. After six busy years' prac- tising in Winthrop he went abroad, and upon his return offered his services to the State, but did not go to the War. He joined the Maine Medical Association in 186S, and soon became an active member, was elected presi- dent at one time, and in his inaugural address strongly advocated a State Board of Health. The association, following his advice, saw it ultimately established. He also formed the Kennebec County Medical Society, and joined the American Medical Association. He col- lected statistics of prevalent diseases during tnany years in Kennebec county. He was tall, dignified, had a polite yet firm voice, and was listened to with pleasure, both at home and at the discussions at the State Association. He was in favor of a medical Registration Law, worked zealously for it before the Legislature, but failed to bring about its establishment, which later on occurred under other hands. He died October 25, 1898, failing gradually at the last. James A. Spalding. Trans. Maine Med. Assoc. Snow, Edward Sparrow (1820-1892) Edward Sparrow Snow was born in Aus- tinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, July S. 1820. His parents, Sparrow and Clara Kneeland Snow, were natives of Massachusetts, of Eng- lish descent, living on a farm near Austin- burg, Ohio, in 1817. Edward S. Snow grad- uated at Grand River Institute, Ohio, in 1842. During his student days he served two years as adjutant of the First Rifle Regiment, Second Brigade and Twenty-first Division under Col. Tracy and Gen. Stearns of Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. O. K. Hawley, of Austinburg, Ohio, and in 1847 took his M. D. from the medical department of West- ern Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio. After practising a brief period at Plymouth and Dearborn, Michigan, he was appointed act- ing assistant-surgeon of Detroit Arsenal. After a year he was displaced, but in 18S2 reinstated by Jeff Davis, and continued to serve till the Arsenal was abandoned by the United States Ordnance Department. Dr. Snow was a founder of the Wayne County (Michigan) Medical Society, both in its first and second epochs; founder of the first Detroit Medical Society; founder of the